Finally back with an update! I focused 100% on the car in the month or 2 leading up to the UMI autocross so I had some catching up to do once I got back home. As you'll read below I also broke my torque arm at the event so I've been waiting on some parts while I catch up on everything else.
Quick summary of the UMI autocross event: It was a great time! Despite all of my concerns and having maybe 20 test miles on the car, it did great. The car started and ran fine, despite still having some slow throttle response. I took it easy on the first couple of runs but slowly ramped it up from there. I had some rubbing issues in the back that I discovered once i started pushing the car a bit. I had brought some spare spacers I had lying around and some others were very generous to let me borrow some. I kept adding spacers every run and once I pieced together the right combination that I needed, I measured the stack and was able to order some nice aluminum spacers to work. Summit was actually on-site and I was able to order the spacers and get them delivered the next day right to the track. Nice!
On the second day, I on one of my last runs in the morning session I heard a loud bang after a particular corner where you come off the banking and into the infield section of the course. I backed off and limped the car back to the pits and it was pretty obvious what the issue was, my torque arm was in 2 pieces! This pretty much ended my day, and luckily this was a UMI hosted event so I was able to have a couple of their engineers take a look at my car and recommend the pieces I needed to get her back up and running. Thanks Ramey!
Overall, UMI puts on an awesome event and I would highly recommend it to anyone. They have created such a cool facility for autocrossing and their events are run top-notch and super smooth. Lots of runs throughout the day with minimal downtime. I'll be back next year for sure!
UMI was pretty backed up with their orders and I just got all of my pieces last week so I'll be sure to document the installation and also show how my old torque arm broke (it was an older Spohn piece). For now here's a photo dump from the weekend: